1NTEODUCT1 ON xl vii

children, Salim Chishtl promised Akhar another son, and at his FATH-
housc in 977 Jahfmgir was born and named Salim after the 3?tn&
Shaikh. Pathpur was completed in 979 and for some years became
Akbar's head quarters. The earliest known coin from the mint which
he established there is No. 433 dated 977 (probably), the obverse
of which I have not been able completely to decipher. The mint,
however, was not in regular working order till 985, of which year
square rupees are known; of the following year specimens in gold,
silver, and "copper are catalogued. The first gold issues were round
(No. 88), but in the same year appeared a square type (R If. 6f.»
No, f>0)* These squaw coins were struck till 98!) and from that date
no more in heard of Urn mint until 1038—the first year of Shfih-
jahfin, of which <la.tr, a solitary specimen is published in the Ldhor
Muxcuwt, (httultujuv (p. 1(51). Fathpilr is known on all the coins
except the. round gold muhar of 986 and the ddm of 977 as
IMra-s-saltanat

(K)BINDP(lE GOBIITD-

Lat 23° 38' Long. 80° 9'

M M M

Akbar -«- 4

This mint town has been Identiiied with a place of this name in
Chhotfi Nfigjiftr in fiengfil No metal but copper seems to have
been coined there, (It in not, however, mentioned in AbuJUfaxFs
list of mints for copper coins,) The coins (Noa. 441-4) are
Hpeelmens of Akbar'a tanka issue and are of his forty-fifth to
forty-Heventh yearn*

In the LdJior Mumww* Ctdtttwjuti an.? given four coins of the
fortieth y<*ar, but it HtuuuH probable that forty-five has been mistaken
for forty, for I can find no mention of the Iwufat\\ii\\b*AiM-l~Akhvrt
which wan not completed till the forty-second year. To judge from
the evidence of the Agra and Ahinadfibdd coins, the tauka, issue did
not commence till the forty-fourth year.

UOKU1XUKH GOXUXr
Lai 28°' I2X Long. 70° 4()/
ft M M
Hh&h 'Alain II — 7 —
Goktilgarh ilocw not occur m a Mughal mint till the reign of
Sh&h *Alam 11 It wa« a town in Mew&t on the borders of Bikfoir,